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Quiksilver Women's x Club98 Capsule Celebrates Female Surf Community
By Dorothy Crouch | January 21, 2022
Celebrating the female surf community, the QQuiksilver Women's x Club98 Capsule was recently released as a collaboration between the Huntington Beach, Calif., brand and the global organization of ocean lovers.
Metropark Launches iPhone App
Los Angeles-based specialty retail store Metropark launched an iPhone and iPod Touch mobile shopping application that provides a full assortment of the products featured on its online store. Users can browse through its list...
Gap Goes Supercute for Holiday
It’s going to be a cute, cute Christmas—if The Gap has anything to do about it. This holiday ad is currently airing—and (to me, at least) it has all the makings of a viral success: adorable moppets—in clothing I covet for my imaginary Swedish...
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North Korean Jeans: A Tale of Three Swedes, a Glass of Vodka, and a Strange Pair of Denim (Refinery 29)Koi Suwannagate's Anthropologie...
Out on a Lim
Phillip Lim at his West Hollywood store opening. Photo by John Schulli/Berliner StudioFashion designer Phillip Lim, now based in New York but raised in Southern California, is making a special appearance at the Los Angeles Museum of Art on...
Fashion, Art and Music in Downtown L.A.
Leave it to Los Angeles designers and artists to combine forces for a day of art, fashion and music. Lucy B lingerie David Solomon and the Downtown Art Gallery will hold an open house and sample sale on Dec. 5 in downtown L.A. The collaborative event will...
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Eastside L.A. fashion and culture magazine Them Rag debuts (Los Angeles Times' All the Rage)Saks Black Friday: On a Scale of 1 - 10, We Give It a 6...
Mouse at the Ready: Here Comes the Cyber Monday Deals
This Cyber Monday deal report comes late in the day due to exhaustive clicking and deal scouring. Online sales already got a strong start well...
Dinner at Galina's
Dinner is servedWe recently scored an invitation to a private party hosted by Galina Sobolov, founder and designer of the Single label. Fashion Editor N. Jayne Seward, Manufacturing Editor Erin Barajas and I headed into the hills to dine with Galina and a few of her friends. Once there, we took in the...
Happy Thanksgiving. Now, Get Out There and Shop!
Hitting the floor at The Citadel Outlets. Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles TimesBlack Friday sales and promotions helped prompt consumers to shake off the tryptophan lethargy and hit the mall. While most stores opened at dawn, stores at the Glendale...
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Now Open: Echo Park's Future Looks a Lot Like a Familiar Past (Racked LA)Now Open: Russh Mode Jeans on Robertson (Racked LA)Tim Gunn speaks out against...
Six Ways To Slay Black Friday Stress
Stressed-out retail clerks, Freeman Hall feels your pain. The author and former Nordstrom sales associate documented the ridiculous side of sales in his memoir, "Retail Hell: How I Sold My Soul to the Store, Confessions of a Tortured Sales Associate." It was published by...
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Shop In Shops—Tt Collection Pops Up on West 3rd (Blackburn and Sweetzer)Makin' It Official At No. A in Little Tokyo (Racked...
From a Seedy Street, an Avant Fashion Scene Grows
Them Atelier A graffiti-scarred bridge underpass in Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood looks foreboding, like a crime scene waiting to happen. But for designers Brian Kim and David Hershberger, this no-go zone is perfect to build an avant-garde fashion scene.This year, Kim opened fashion studio Them...
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Quiksilver Tony Hawk Show in Paris (Hypebeast)Hurley and Nike Ride the Wave into the Future (Racked LA)Ann Taylor gets a makeover (Los Angeles...
Toms Shoes & Ewan McGregor Party for the Good Cause
Toms Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie, left, and Cheryl Tiegs at Go Campaign's Go Go GalaBlake Mycoskie proves that doing good works can be a fun gig. In mid-November, Mycoskie was the chief VIP at a Neiman Marcus party in Dallas, which celebrated the Neiman...
